Poet Charles Ghigna sees things from the inside out. His poems ignite the imagination, tickle the funny bone, and warm the heart. His artist son, Chip Ghigna, draws upon that same inner whorl of illusive thoughts and ideas. Together they create a dreamland where visions become reality and reality becomes an illusion. Welcome to the magic of this first father and son collaboration, Illusions: Poetry & Art for the Young at Heart.
Poet Charles Ghigna sees things from the inside out. His poems ignite the imagination, tickle the funny bone, and warm the heart. His artist son, Chip Ghigna, draws upon that same inner whorl of illusive thoughts and ideas. Together they create a dreamland where visions become reality and reality becomes an illusion. Welcome to the magic of this first father and son collaboration, Illusions: Poetry & Art for the Young at Heart.
Charles Ghigna--Father Goose(R)--lives in a treehouse in the middle
of Alabama. He is the author of more than one hundred books from
Random House, Simon & Schuster, Time Inc., Disney, Hyperion,
Scholastic, and other publishers. He has written more than five
thousand poems for children and adults. His work appears in
anthologies, newspapers, and magazines ranging from The New Yorker
and Harper's to Highlights and Cricket. He served as
poet-in-residence and chair of creative writing at the Alabama
School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford
University, and as a nationally syndicated feature writer for
Tribune Media.
Chip Ghigna lives in Birmingham, Alabama. His paintings appear in
galleries, corporations, and private collections throughout the
U.S. and France.
"What a pleasure to see a father-son team collaborating as poet and
artist, inspiring each other along the way. These dream-like poems
and accompanying illustrations seem to extend, and then layer, each
other. Hopefully, Illusions will be the spark that inspires other
readers and writers of poetry (and especially those young at heART)
to create their own."
--Rebecca Kai Dotlich, poet and author
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